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We're Getting the Band Back Together Mar. 01, 2024
I don't live in the kind of city that gets Lady Gaga live for one night, or Taylor Swift. I live in ... Read More
Middle America Is Dying Hard Feb. 27, 2024
WEIRTON, West Virginia — Most people in this town will tell you they'd rather have taken a phy... Read More
Democrats' Big Bucks County School Board Sweep Should Unnerve Republicans Everywhere Nov. 14, 2023
DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania — There are only a handful of counties in this country that can authe... Read More
What the 'Great Trucking Recession' Is Warning Us About the Economy Nov. 07, 2023
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Two months ago, 30,000 truckers at Yellow lost their jobs when one o... Read More
Mike Rowe's Intentionally Unintentional Intentional Purpose-Driven Life Oct. 24, 2023
Mike Rowe has had one heck of a year, and it isn't even over yet. Rowe, best known for hosting the D... Read More
2024: 3 Leaders, 1 Way to Win Mar. 06, 2023
This time eight years ago, voters thought they knew what to expect. The 2016 election would be a rem... Read More
False Gods Mar. 05, 2021
By now, Friday, March 5, 2021, the revolution will have reached its full flowering. Donald Trump was... Read More
A Note From Out Jan. 29, 2021
We've been out, my wife, Deborah, and I, in the car. Election. Deflection. Insurrection. Misdirectio... Read More
Centrist Democrat Tim Ryan Concerned About His Party: 'Our Brand Is Not Good' Nov. 24, 2020
HOWLAND TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Tim Ryan says there is a certain kind of letdown you feel when you lo... Read More
There Are Plenty of Shyannes in Foxholes May. 01, 2020
These days, I believe I match the description of the bad father in the old Johnny Cash song, "A Boy ... Read More
Biden and Bernie to Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia: Drop Dead Mar. 10, 2020
The Democratic presidential field is down to two old, white males, former Vice President Joe Biden a... Read More
America's Troubled Waters Nov. 19, 2019
CRESCO, Iowa — If you come to this rural Iowa town, you'll learn about a problem that may soun... Read More
Will the Democrats Miss Middle America Again? Oct. 29, 2019
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In the weeks, then months and now years after losing the presidential electio... Read More
Where Trump Can Find a Good Farm Policy Oct. 23, 2019
Government by the rich is called plutocracy. Government by police power is autocracy. Government by ... Read More
How Small Cities and Towns Can Right Their Ship Oct. 15, 2019
ERIE, Pennsylvania — Several large pieces of cobalt-blue glass panels bearing "Don't Give Up t... Read More
'Real America' Inside the Beltway Jul. 02, 2019
WASHINGTON — It is often said our nation's capital is filled with wealthy college-educated eli... Read More
Maybe Try Winning Jun. 28, 2019
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering is a non-justiciable... Read More
How Middle America Is to Be Dispossessed Mar. 12, 2019
In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W... Read More
I'll Have the Steak and Eggs: A Political Parable Feb. 18, 2019
Forty years ago, in one of those Midwestern cities where flat avenues end in clusters of convenience... Read More
'America's Heartland' Has Reason to Be Underwhelmed by Trump Oct. 29, 2018
Conspicuously absent in the campaign pitches of Midwestern GOP politicians are enthusiastic statemen... Read More
